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Shovelled the snow four times in the past four days, and I need to shovel again tonight when I get home. So far, I built some radiator reflectors, which are just cardboard, aluminum foil, and duct tape, put ‘em behind the radiators after clearing out 30 years of accumulated crud. Cleaned the garage, changed bulbs, changed humidifier filters, re-hung a clothesline. Took out part of a wall, and maybe identified my water main.

Now, I was ready to bleed my radiators. And it went well, at first. Then, I was puzzled. I did the first ones, they hissed some air, and eventually made with the goods: some clear water running in a stream. This boy was ecstatic. I moved on to radiator #3, in the living room, which had hot feet, warm ankles, and nothing warm on the rest of it. I turned the valve, PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT air came out. Then… nothing. No water, no more hissing air. I thought the system should recover for the lost pressure by putting in more water, but it was a no go. At least, immediately. Over the past few days I have been cranking the keys at intervals, letting out what air is pressurized in each of the two radiators which do this. They puff out some air, wheeze a little, and then I close them back up.

Either there’s a ton of air in this system ‘cause it’s never been bled, or it’s just seriously whacked. I can’t seem to find any devices to remove air from the system.. the name of that thing escapes me right now, but it should be by the overflow tank. Anyway, I think I know how to bleed system #2, as well, which is the downstairs non-valved system. We’ll see. I’d like to avoid blowing up myself/my house/my family.

Finally, tested the phone line and realized it was the phone, not the line, which was dead.

Now is has stopped snowing. It’s so pretty, but I have so little time to shovel sidewalks!